Full name: Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human

Author: Elizabeth Hess Year: 2008 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Animals, Non Fiction, Science, Biographies, Psychology, Anthology Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780553803839 9780553382778 0553803832 0553382772

Project Nim, the brainchild of a Columbia University psychologist, was designed to refute Noam Chomsky's claim that language is an exclusively human trait. Nim Chimpsky, the chimpanzee chosen to realize this potentially groundbreaking experiment, was raised like a human child and taught American Sign Language while living with his "adoptive family" in their elegant Manhattan town house. But when funding for the study ended, Nim's problems began. Over the next two decades he was exiled from the people he loved, put in a cage, and moved from one facility to another, including, most ominously, a medical research lab. But wherever he went, Nim's humanlike qualities and his ability to communicate with humans saved him. Similar books: Unlikely Heroes by Jennifer S. Holland Zoo Story by Thomas French Emi and the Rhino Scientist by Mary Kay Carson My Life with the Chimpanzees by Jane Goodall Animal Madness by Laurel Braitman The Radioactive Boy Scout by Ken Silverstein The Beauty of the Beasts by Ralph Helfer The Ape and the Sushi Master by Frans de Waal Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal Chimpanzee Politics by Frans de Waal Monkeyluv by Robert M. Sapolsky Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin The Other End of the Leash by Patricia B. McConnell A Buzz in the Meadow by Dave Goulson Animals Make Us Human by Temple Grandin Tricks of the Mind by Derren Brown Animal Wise by Virginia Morell The Alex Studies by Irene M. Pepperberg Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith